Print’s October 2011 Issue: Table of Contents

Each issue this year has seen a new collaboration between Print and a guest art director. One after another, they’ve reinvigorated the magazine with their own vision. Fittingly, the latest—and last—issue in the project, guest designed and coedited by the Dutch designers Metahaven, is the Identity issue. We expanded our usual focus, moving, as Metahaven writes, “to the fringes of the design world.” You’ll find stories on the “design” of geopolitics, the artist behind M.I.A.’s unusual websites, Experimental Jetset’s grappling with modernism, and the masks that comic-book artists wear in their own work. Elsewhere in the magazine, Rick Poynor wonders if we need a new term to describe the field of graphic design, Chermayeff & Geismar previews its new monograph for Print Publishing, and the Heads of State offers its take on the iconic form of the business card.

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I have enjoyed Print Magazine for 15 years now. But I have to say, the cover of the current issue [October 2011] upsets me. If you were to tell me an eight-year-old child designed it, I wouldn’t believe you. I’ve yet to meet an eight year old as aesthetically inept as whoever duped you into printing this “thing.” Seriously, who approved it? Also, can I have their job?

I have enjoyed Print Magazine for 15 years now. But I have to say, the cover of the current issue [October 2011] upsets me. If you were to tell me an eight-year-old child designed it, I wouldn’t believe you. I’ve yet to meet an eight year old as aesthetically inept as whoever duped you into printing this “thing.” Seriously, who approved it? Also, can I have their job?

I have enjoyed Print Magazine for 15 years now. But I have to say, the cover of the current issue [October 2011] upsets me. If you were to tell me an eight-year-old child designed it, I wouldn’t believe you. I’ve yet to meet an eight year old as aesthetically inept as whoever duped you into printing this “thing.” Seriously, who approved it? Also, can I have their job?